branch
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- (US, Northern England) IPA: /bɹæntʃ/, X-SAMPA: /br\{ntS/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -æntʃ, -ɑːntʃ
- (RP) IPA: /bɹɑːntʃ/
Etymology [edit]
From Old French branche, from Vulgar Latin branca (“paw”), possibly from Gaulish *vranca. Indo-European cognates include Old Norse vró (“angle, corner”), Lithuanian rankà (“hand”), Old Church Slavonic рѫка (rǫka, “hand”), Albanian rangë (“yard work”).
Noun [edit]
branch (plural branches)
- The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
- Something that divides like the branch of a tree.
- A location of an organization with several locations.
- Our main branch is downtown, and we have branches in all major suburbs.
- (Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.
- An area in business or of knowledge, research.
- 2012 January 1, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 23:
- We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.
- 2012 January 1, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 23:
- (nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
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Synonyms [edit]
- (part of a tree): bough, twig, see also Wikisaurus:tree
Translations [edit]
woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing
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something that divides like the branch of a tree
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office of an organization with several locations
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area in business or of knowledge, research
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certificate given by Trinity House
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Verb [edit]
branch (third-person singular simple present branches, present participle branching, simple past and past participle branched)
- (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
- (intransitive) To produce branches.
- (intransitive) To divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
- (intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
Translations [edit]
to arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree
to produce branches
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to jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement
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Etymology [edit]
From French branche (“branch”).
Noun [edit]
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